State Political Directorateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The State Political Directorate was the secret police of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) and the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1934. Formed from the Cheka, the original Russian state security organization, on February 6, 1922, it was initially known under the Russian abbreviation GPU--short for "Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie of the NKVD of the RSFSR" (Государственное Политическое Управление НКВД РСФСР). Its first chief was the Cheka's former chairman, Felix Dzerzhinsky.